Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11270 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inferioursinferiors

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 2,815 times in 976 works
Consistency: 100% (2,815 of 2,815)
Reach if approved: ~2,958 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: inferiors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,815 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,815 changes in 976 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,815)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with ſpeciall direction to be employed vnto certein perſons, (as do the gifts of inferioursinferiors) cannot in equitie, but haue ſome ſpeciall conſideration from them againe, vppon whome they …
With rule
… with ſpeciall direction to be employed vnto certein perſons, (as do the gifts of inferioursinferiors) cannot in equitie, but haue ſome ſpeciall conſideration from them againe, vppon whome they …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now the reason of this facile inclination, which causeth inferioursinferiors to be like yron drawne with these Loadstones, and to be like straw drawne …
With rule
Now the reason of this facile inclination, which causeth inferioursinferiors to be like yron drawne with these Loadstones, and to be like straw drawne …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… walke worthy the honour due vnto them, and to vſe all gentleneſſe towards their InferioursInferiors.
With rule
… walke worthy the honour due vnto them, and to vſe all gentleneſſe towards their InferioursInferiors.
John Mayer · Catechism Abridged · Open in the reader
Printed
From them in authoritie, firſt inſtruction of their inferioursinferiors in the thinges of God, and of their ſpeciall callinges: then due recōpence of …
With rule
From them in authoritie, firſt inſtruction of their inferioursinferiors in the thinges of God, and of their ſpeciall callinges: then due recōpence of …
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… teachers, the young to the aged: And contrariwiſe of all thoſe ſuperiours towardes their inferioursinferiors.
With rule
… teachers, the young to the aged: And contrariwiſe of all thoſe ſuperiours towardes their inferioursinferiors.
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… divers sorts of chaires; so there are divers sorts of scorners: some scorne their inferioursinferiors; and forget, that in scorning them, they reproach their maker: some scorne their betters …
With rule
… divers sorts of chaires; so there are divers sorts of scorners: some scorne their inferioursinferiors; and forget, that in scorning them, they reproach their maker: some scorne their betters …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. To carrie themſelues grauely, meekly, and after a ſeemely manner towards their inferioursinferiors.
With rule
A. To carrie themſelues grauely, meekly, and after a ſeemely manner towards their inferioursinferiors.
John Ball · A Short Catechism · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
An instruction to all inferioursinferiors, if they would stand before their Gouernours with credit & good acceptation, to stand against …
With rule
An instruction to all inferioursinferiors, if they would stand before their Gouernours with credit & good acceptation, to stand against …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.